How Carbon Hybrid Wheel Technology can Transform your Driving Experience
What are Dymag BX-F™ Carbon Hybrid wheels?
A Carbon Hybrid performance car wheel combines carbon fibre with other materials like aluminium or magnesium. To achieve this, the wheel is assembled from 2 pieces – the Rim (or ‘barrel’) is the large outer part which holds the tyre, and the centre (or ‘face’), which is the central part of the wheel (usually featuring spokes) which attaches to the hub. These two pieces are most commonly joined together using lightweight titanium fasteners.
What are the benefits of fitting Carbon Hybrid wheels?
Handling & Acceleration
Most of us know that light-weighting is nearly always the quickest and easiest way to improve performance. Still, you may not know that a reduction in unsprung weight makes a much bigger impact on performance than the same weight saving anywhere else on your vehicle.
Unsprung components are those which are not supported by the suspension system – including wheels, tyres, brake assemblies, and certain parts of the suspension itself such as control arms and axles.
Weight reductions here directly affect your vehicle’s handling by optimising suspension response and control. This improvement ensures superior tyre contact with the road, enhancing grip, acceleration, braking performance, and overall driving dynamics.
Choosing Carbon Hybrid wheels will give you an instant and significant reduction in unsprung weight – with Dymag Carbon BOXSTROM™ BX-F™ barrels with forged aluminium centres being up to 40% lighter than cast aluminium and 20% lighter than forged aluminium.
In addition to reducing unsprung weight, lightweight BX-F™ Carbon Hybrid wheels also greatly reduce rotational mass. This reduction in the gyroscopic effect of rapidly rotating wheels boosts both acceleration and braking performance, whilst making your car feel more agile during cornering and rapid direction changes.
Heat Management
While Monobloc Carbon wheels have good thermal properties, the aluminium in a Carbon Hybrid wheel acts as a heat sink, absorbing and dissipating much more of the heat generated from braking and friction between the tire and the driving surface.
Repairability
Because Carbon Hybrid wheels are a 2-piece design, if one part of the wheel gets damaged, it can often be replaced without needing to replace the entire wheel. For example, if the rim gets cracked, it can be unbolted and replaced while retaining the original centre (and vice versa). With single piece wheels this is not an option and you would have to replace the whole wheel.
Customisation
Again, unlike Monobloc, 2-piece Carbon Hybrid wheels offer a high degree of customisation as the centre and rim can be mixed and matched in various designs, finishes and colours to achieve a specific look and feel.
Why the Automotive Elite choose to partner with Dymag
Both premium wheel companies and automotive manufacturers understand that advanced composite wheel technology is a highly specialised area of automotive engineering. Widely recognised as pioneers in carbon hybrid wheels, many elite automotive brands and race teams choose to partner with Dymag due to the company’s long-standing reputation in high-performance and elite motorsports sectors.
50 Years of Performance Excellence has seen Dymag wheels driven in multiple elite racing series such as F1, IndyCar, Le Mans and Paris Dakar. Dymag have also been brought in on countless special projects, like Jenson Button’s Radford Lotus Type 62-2 Programme. Manufacturers including Aston Martin, Lotus, Koenisegg and Honda have all specified Dymag wheels as OEM, with the likes of BMW, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Porsche owners using Dymag wheels as aftermarket solutions.
Leading premium wheel companies such as Forgeline, Vorsteiner, Brixton and Anrky also specify Dymag Carbon BX-F™ Barrels in their top-end Carbon Hybrid wheels. Such is the reputation and cachet of Dymag that their wheels are co-branded, retaining the Dymag logo on the finished rim.
Dymag BOXSTROM™ Carbon Barrel Technology
Named after the founder of Dymag, Max Boxstrom, the Dymag BOXSTROM™ barrel leads the way when it comes to Carbon Hybrid wheels.
With a growing list of international patents, BOXSTROM™ rims feature a revolutionary design which makes them not only technically superior, but also safer than alternative hybrid and aluminium wheels. That’s thanks to both a super-strong and durable construction, but also due to built-in safe-failure features.
These centre around moving the main load bearing structure of the wheel away from areas that are most exposed to impact damage such as kerbs, potholes and road debris. Importantly the design also substantially improves overall wheel stiffness and fatigue resistance.
With BOXSTROM™, Dymag has created a carbon barrel that, when paired with a bespoke high-specification forged aluminium or magnesium centrepiece, combines the cutting-edge performance of carbon composites with the styling flexibility and stiffness of forged centerpieces.
50 Years of Performance Momentum
This year marks a significant milestone for Dymag as we celebrate our 50th anniversary. For half a century, Dymag has been at the forefront of wheel innovation, producing high-performance wheels that combine cutting-edge technology with unparalleled craftsmanship. From our pioneering days to our current status as industry leaders, we remain dedicated to delivering the best in strength, lightweight design, and superior performance. Join us in celebrating 50 years of Performance Momentum.